GUNJA, s. Hind. gānjhā, gānjā. The flowering or fruiting shoots of the female plant of Indian hemp (Cannabis sativa, L., formerly distinguished as C. indica), used as an intoxicant. (See BANG.)

[c. 1813. — "The natives have two proper names for the hemp (Cannabis satica), and call it Gangja when young, and Siddhi when the flowers have fully expanded."— Buchanan, Eastern India, ii. 865.]

1874. — "In odour and the absence of taste, ganjá resembles bhang. It is said that after the leaves which constitute bhang have been gathered, little shoots sprout from the stem, and that these, picked off and dried, form what is called ganjá." — Hanbury & Flückiger, 493.